vulnerability
MFSA2017-24 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 57 (CVE-2017-7836)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Nov 14, 2017 | Nov 15, 2017 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 14, 2017
Added
Nov 15, 2017
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
Description
The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace. This allows for privilege escalation as the replaced libcurl code will run with Firefox's privileges. Note: This attack requires an attacker have local system access and only affects OS X and Linux. Windows systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
Solution
mozilla-firefox-upgrade-57_0
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